{"title":"The burden of myeloma: novel approaches to disease assessment.","authors":"Matthew Ho, Taxiarchis Kourelis","doi":"10.1182/hematology.2022000348","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Novel therapies in multiple myeloma (MM) have increased the rates of conventional complete remission (CR) in patients. However, patients in CR can have highly heterogeneous outcomes. Novel and more sensitive methods of assessing residual disease burden after therapy will help prognosticate this group better and, ideally, allow individualized therapy adjustments based on response depth in the future. Here, we review novel bone marrow, peripheral blood, and imaging methods for assessing myeloma burden and discuss the opportunities and limitations of incorporating these in everyday clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":12973,"journal":{"name":"Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9820131/pdf/hem.2022000348.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1182/hematology.2022000348","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Novel therapies in multiple myeloma (MM) have increased the rates of conventional complete remission (CR) in patients. However, patients in CR can have highly heterogeneous outcomes. Novel and more sensitive methods of assessing residual disease burden after therapy will help prognosticate this group better and, ideally, allow individualized therapy adjustments based on response depth in the future. Here, we review novel bone marrow, peripheral blood, and imaging methods for assessing myeloma burden and discuss the opportunities and limitations of incorporating these in everyday clinical practice.